Iraq’s Nouri al-Maliki no doubt is relieved about Anbar uprising against his totalitarian rule, shifting the fighting against al Qaeda-linked militants in Falluja and Ramadi. Iraqi troops are now more remembered and hailed as bravely fighting terrorists belonging to the al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) with little mention of their recent crackdown on antigovernment insurgents in the western province of Anbar. The Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad has ...